Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Beverley Hills Primary School

Nicole WERNER (Warrandyte) (19:11): (597) My adjournment is to the Minister for Education, and the action I seek is for the minister to provide a time line which he will release publicly for the installation of the substation at Beverley Hills Primary School. Beverley Hills Primary School in Doncaster East is one of the places that makes our electorate truly great. It is one of the best performing schools in the state, with consistently high NAPLAN results. According to the Better Education analysis of 2022 academic outcomes, Beverley Hills Primary School scored a perfect score of 100, which only a handful of other schools received. Of course this does not happen accidentally; it is owing to the tireless work of the staff at Beverley Hills Primary School, and I would especially like to highlight the work of their principal Jennifer Watson, who does an excellent job and works incredibly hard for our school community.

This local school’s record-high results have led to record-high enrolments, and this amazing school gets bigger by the day, with four new school buildings. These buildings run off diesel generators, and they have previously struggled with blackouts during the day, unfortunately interrupting learning. This problem has had a temporary solution with the placing of a second, smaller diesel generator, but this is not good enough. This amazing school deserves the infrastructure that they need to keep educating our next generation. Every two weeks they need to refill the generators with diesel, which is getting more and more expensive by the day, whilst the diesel fumes are affecting nearby residents. Beverley Hills Primary School do not do anything less than their absolute best to deliver impressive results year on year, and the government therefore should not be doing anything less than their absolute best to ensure that this school has the energy infrastructure that they need to keep the lights on, keep the aircon going and keep students learning.